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SIGALIT LANDAU (B. 1969)
Barbed Hula
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Sigalit Landau Barbed Hula 2001 17/18' (on backcover of the CD slip case); signed, titled, and numbered again 'Sigalit Landau 17/18 Barbed Hula' (on the CD)
single-channel DVD loop
duration: 1:48 minutes
Executed in 2001. This work is number seventeen from an edition of eighteen.

Provenance
Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited
Herzelia Museum of Art, Angel of History , 2000 (another example exhibited).
Stockholm, Magasin 3, Spiritus , February-April 2003, p. 21 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).
Saitama, Museum of Modern Art, Messages to the New Millenium: Israel Art Today , 2005 (another example exhibited).
Magasin 3, Stockholm Kunsthalle, Spritus , February-April 2003 (another example exhibited).
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Affirmative Action , 2005 (another example exhibited).
Nikosia, Leap of Faith , 2005 (another example exhibited).
Kunstverein-Ludwigsburg, Loose Your Identity , May-July 2005 (another example exhibited).
Amsterdam, Institut Francais des Pays-Bas, Shared History Decolonising the Image , 2006 (another example exhibited).
National Museum of Warsaw and Krakow, The Raft of the Medusa , 2006 (another example exhibited).
New York, MoMA P.S. 1, Into Me/Out of Me , June 2006-February 2007 (another example exhibited).
New York, Brooklyn Museum, Global Feminisms: New Direction in Contemporary Art , March-July, 2007, p. 214 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).
Haifa Museum, Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection , June-September, 2007 (another example exhibited).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Project 87 Sigalit Landau , March-July 2008 (another example exhibited).
Paris, Centre Pompidou and Seattle Art Museum, Elles , May 2009-January 2013, p. 69 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).
London, ROLLO Contemporary Art; Cambridge, New Hall Art Collection; Bournemouth, Gallery at the Art University College, The Body in Women's Art Now , October 2009-January 2011 (another example exhibited).
Voswinckelshof, Francisco de Goya , 2010 (another example exhibited).
Moscow, Winzavod Art Center, The Calm Before the Storm , 2010 (another example exhibited).
Moscow, Solyanka State Gallery, Infinite Games , June-July 2012 (another example exhibited).
Busan Museum of Art, Busan Biennale, Garden of Learning , September-November 2012 (another example exhibited).
Miami, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Alone Together , December 2012-August 2013 (another example exhibited).
Heerlen, SCHUNCK*, Suffering and Redemption , 2013 (another example exhibited).
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Skin: An Artistic Atlas , March-April 2013 (another example exhibited

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This act of desensitization - spinning a hula hoop of barbed wire - I performed at sunrise on a southern beach of Tel-Aviv, where fishermen and old people come to start their day and exercise. The beach is the only calm and natural border Israel has. Danger is generated from history into life and into the body. In this video loop I am performing a hula belly dance. This is a personal and senso-political act concerned with invisible, sub-skin borders, surrounding the body actively and endlessly. All my work relates, in one way or another, to a loss of orientation. The pain here is escaped by the speed of the act, and the fact that the spikes of the barbed wire are mostly turned outwards. -- Sigalit Landau

Read the interview with Sigalit Landau.

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